DISCLAIMER: I do not own BLEACH or any of its characters
A story rated M for LEMON Explicit LEMON
Different take on current manga story line- Ichigo has found out Isshin is a shinigami and is not to happy having been lied to all his life. He has distanced himself from the Gotei 13 and ALL shinigami.
UNAVOIDABLE Fate of the Black Cape
chapter 1 - slice of life
Ichigo woke up with a pounding headache like he had every other morning over the last year and a half. He made sure to move slowly, seeing the pink drapes.
That's right. He thought. He had slept over at Orihime's again. Spending time with her was a great distraction. He hated feeling that way. She wasn't just a distraction he really cared for her. After the whole thing went down she was the only one he could stand to look at lately, but it had been a long time since being with her that it had stopped his headaches too.
Uryuu and Chad had basically turned their backs on him. Assholes. Couldn't they understand how he felt. Having been lied to.
Uryuu went on about how the past couldn't be changed, but now he had an obligation to help now. If it wasn't for HIM then his mother might still be alive. NO! He didn't want anything to do with any of them.
Ichigo crept quickly in the bathroom looking back at the sleeping Orihime as she stirred into the sheets. She was beautiful and so sweet, her beauty almost the polar opposite of…
Ichigo stopped himself from completing the thought and his head pounded even more. He rummaged in Orihime's medicine cabinet for aspirin or something stronger. Of course she didn't have anything. She didn't like him self-medicating. He hated when she talked like that. she had tried several time unsuccessfully to heal whatever was causing them, but not even that helped.
He had to get across the hall and get dressed. His head was hurting so bad he was about to scream.
He gathered his clothes that had been discarded on their mad dash to sexual bliss the night before. Kissing her on the head, then taking an apple from the kitchen on his way to his apartment across the hall.
After everything that had happened he had planned to just move to Tokyo but Orihime talked him out of it reminding him his promise to his sisters not to leave until he graduated. Taking off to Tokyo was looking like a good idea again.
"Kurosaki san." Ichigo looked up bleary eyed seeing another neighbor, Emorichi.
"I see you had a good night." He nodded back towards Orihime's door and then at Ichigo's clothes in his arm. Emorichi was a tall slender guy maybe in his early 20's. he always dressed in black, rock and visual kei blaring from his apartment at all times of the day. He had a small black goatee adfn he had cut his shoulder length greasy looking jet black hair, now it was short and spiky. He was nice enough except he had women in and out of his apartment constantly. Ichigo narrowed his eyes and slipped the key it the lock
"Whoa just a joke pal." Emorichi said hand up as if surrendering understanding Ichigo cold glare instantly." If that was my girlfriend I'd do the same thing too every chance I got. I'm having a party this tonight, you and the princess should drop by."
"Fuck off." Ichigo said plainly slamming his apartment door behind him. That guy was worse than his dad. He winced in pain, his head pounding like it was being hit by a bat, he stumbled down the hall to his bathroom and snatched open the cabinet pulling out his prescription.
FOR MIGRAINES the label said. … Take one every 6 hours.
He took two swallowing them with out water, and put two on the counter to take with him for later.
He got dressed for school.
Ichigo sighed, half way expecting to hear Yuzu calling him for now after a year and a half he still expected to hear her. He'd see her tonight when she came over with Karin for dinner. He better not show up. Ichigo's head pounded again but it was dull and getting better each minute. He checked the time, and called Orihime.
"Hey…..Yeah…..needed something for my head…. ...I know... I know but...….. Anyway 'Hime your gonna be late for school if you don't get up…. Yeah."
He pulled the phone from his ear hearing her scream at the time, "I'll be ready in five I'll meet out side…..." their was an awkward silence. He stared at the phone, uncomfortable, eyes wide in panic. What should he say? She had said it again, he couldn't say it back. He couldn't lie and if he said what he felt it may hurt her.
"Mmm...Yeah.." She was making this harder than it had to be. When he had told her that it was an intense deep friendship. that she was precious to him, but nothing more... she had cried for days. He did care for Orihime, he had risked his life for her time and time again but it wasn't love, not romantic love. not like she had for him, not like he had for ... There was a sharp stabbing pain in his skull, he almost doubled over. He took a deep breath composing himself.
His sisters were still living with him, the supreme liar. That why he couldn't wouldn't allow himself to lie to Orihime. not the way others had lied to him.
Ichigo felt a sharp pain. He took another deep breath and finished getting dressed.
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Orihime held his hand and chatted away as they walked to school. They had to leave earlier and walk the long way around because Ichigo didn't want to pass certain houses on his way to school.
Being a junior had changed most of the classes so now he wasn't in homeroom with people he was once so close too, which suited him just fine.
His homeroom teacher Mr. Wakaba was a young guy, and liked flirting with the female student more than teaching. With the exception of Orihime everyone in his homeroom was new, or course he saw them at lunch or at festivals years before, but he hadn't really known them, Hell he didn't even really know them now. He didn't care, too.
The day passed in a blur; it always did. Ichigo was doing what it took to get by, he had one more year then he would leave and go to Tokyo.
He felt a light throbbing thru the haze of the migraine medicine. Reiatsu. A Hollow... yeah. Somewhere near by. It was faint. the medicine was doing it job, the more he tried to suppress his abilities the more intense the headaches. they had been flaring up again lately. Couldn't they keep things under control? He clinched his fist, that wasn't his concern anymore.
"Kurosaki-kun?" He could hear Orihime whisper his name.
"I'm fine." He said to her.
He felt the reiatsu of Chad and Uryuu flair, then move away from the school. They were still on the job, after all they knew now they were still on the job. He laughed to himself. Suckers.
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to be continued